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and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …
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This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …
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produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
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diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …
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migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …
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